Michael Kerekes

the author calling Ghislaine “madam maxwell” makes clear how widely understood all of this was

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov

DON'T JUST TALK ABOUT IT. DO IT‼️

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

#Meta
#Flo
#California

Illegally tracking woman’s menses cycles.

More attention here please.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

the palate cleanser in the five course pardon meal

At least 9 U.S. citizens have been taken into the custody of Goons with ICE or U.S.
Customs and Border Protection after observing or portesting near immigration raids in the LA area.

We can play too.

Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the...

NEW: Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software.

But the company didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product.

By @reneedudley.bsky.social

Gut-Brain Disorders Surge After Pandemic New data from the UK and the US reveal a broad and significant rise in gut-brain disorders, including IBS and functional dyspepsia, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

As virtually everyone else has now said, the jobs data going forward will be more or less meaningless

Wow

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

Once again, not to be a raging Infrostructurist, but these agreements with universities contain data-sharing arrangements that violate the Equal Protection Clause, a danger noted in this letter.

Newsom will move to redraw California map if Texas redistricts, teeing up national fight The governor plans to go through the Legislature to usher in a map with more Democratic seats if Texas tilts its map to the right, according to a person with knowledge of Newsom’s thinking.

Maps are being drawn and legislators are being lobbied. Get it done, @governor.ca.gov! www.texastribune.org/2025/07/30/t...

Is the Government Still Collecting Inflation Data? Well … Whether it’s AI or Social Media, for me at least, the routine...

Is the Government Still Collecting Inflation Data? Well … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...

Advisor: Boss, we think today again go for another what’s the most incriminating thing I can say.

Trump: okay, incriminating or super weird or skeeve? They’re not the same. There are subtle differences. I try to work those shades.

Advisor: Maybe like a blur of all three?

Trump: Okay, got it.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Democrats can't live by the old rules... We've got to put everything on the table... Governors across the country who have the ability (maybe it's the ones where we've got trifectas) we've got to do everything we can to stand up to what Trump and Abbott are trying to do."

Curious about the Texas map. First it’s yes as bad as everyone says. Part of the accelerating drive to anti-democracy. But there’s one part of this I’m curious about. The Texas map was already super-gerrymandered. Generally speaking when you ultra-gerrymander there is a dynamic in which …

O Great Khan Pritzker, i have seen visions of the future

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

i feel like this is actually a pretty common sentiment for rich people that move from CA to TX

holy crap. now he's confirmed that one of the workers Epstein "stole" was Virginia Giuffre. i hadn't seen this. I guess it's not speculation.

It's remarkable how much national crime and violence and murder debates go on with no grasp of the history of crime/violence in the USA. Deep South/Gulf coast states have always had highest murder/gun violence in the country. Always. In general the South has higher rates of crime/violence ....

The EU has warned Kyiv through diplomatic channels that if it doesn’t revoke the provisions of law No. 12414 and restore NABU and SAP’s independence, financial aid will be suspended, Ukrainska Pravda (Українська Правда) reports.

I’ve seen several people respond with “Gawker had it coming”. I think most of them didn’t read the piece. Because as I argue in the piece whether Gawker “had it coming” is mostly beside the point. The key is the impact the case had on the law and the practice of journalism in its aftermath …